Akkemik, K. Ali - In: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 3 (2011) 2, pp. 247-274
When Turkey signed the Customs Union (CU) agreement with the EU in 1996 there were doubts about the costs and benefits of the CU with regards to Turkey’s foreign trade and industrial production. Theoretically, the CU helps improve efficiency by stimulating productivity gains in the tradable...